Machine for filling boxes.



M. PARIDON.

MACHINE FOR FILLINGBOXES.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-30. l9l6. RENEWED SEPT. H, L9H}.

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MACHINE FOR FILLING BOXES.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.30. I916- RENEWED SEPT. n. 1918.

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MICHAEL IPABIDON, 0F BABIBEBTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOB TO THE DIAMOND MATCH COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

MACHINE FOR FILLING BOXES.

ori inal application ma a... 22, 1915-, Serial No. 35,541.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 15, 1919.

Divided and this application filed August 30,

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, MICHAEL PARIDON, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Barberton, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines 'for Filling Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

This is adivision of an application for patent filed by me June-22, 1915, under Serial No. 35,541 for certain improvements in and relating to machines for filling boxes, more especially match boxes of the tray-andshuck type.

The invention particularly though not exclusively concerns certain improvements in the match box filling machine illustrated in Letters Patent of the United States No. 1,064,452, dated June 10, 1913, wherein the trays or boxes are deposited in succession upon an endless chain conveyer. and there by impelled consecutively to and past the delivery end of the match machine, the boxes thus being supplied with matches, and the filled trays being thence positioned in operative relation to mechanism whereby shucks or covers are applied to the trays, all of which will more fully appear by reference to said Letters Patent.

The object of my present invention is to provide simple and efficient means whereby I the box trays are delivered successively to the conveyer, and means whereby a uniform and rapid feeding and delivery of the matches to the succession of trays is attained.

Accordingly the invention comprises various features of construction and combinations of parts which will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation of a part of a match box filling machine embodying a preferred form of my invention, a fragment of the match carrier of the match machine being indicated by dotted lines at the receiving end of the match feeding hopper.

' Fig. 2 is a plan of the mechanism shown in Fig. 1, showing several filled trays on the tray conveyer.

Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section through the machine on a plane intersecting the delivery end of the match-feeding hopper, as on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section through the tray-feeding guide and adj uncts, showing the frictional feeding device for the trays.

Fig. 5 is a longitudinal vertical section through the delivery end of the match feeding hopper as supplied with matches, showing in side elevation a part of the tray conyeyer as supplied with trays, and the selectmg action upon the matches of the upward extensions of the tray holding members of the conveyer. In this view the gage or throat piece at the delivery end of the hopper and also the adjacent portion of the guard rod are shown.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the delivery end of the hopper; the throat piece therefor, and adjuncts.

Referring to the drawings, 20 designates an elongated hopper to one end of which matches are delivered from a suitable source of supply, as, for example, the endless match carrier of a continuous match machine; a part of which carrier is indicated by dotted lines at 21 in Fig. 1. The form of hopper illustrated comprises an inclined bottom 22 having two parallel sides 23 providing be- 1 tween them a space slightly greater in width than the length of a match. The lower ends of the sides are horizontally extended, as at '24, and their outer extremities are connected by a transverse end plate 25 which is appropriately recessed on its lower edge, as at 26,

or the free passage of traveling blade devices which will be hereinafter described. The side extensions and the adjacent part of the bottom overhang a horizontal bed or table 27 which is supported by the standards of a suitable supporting frame 28. The bottom is provided with a suitably-disposed slide 29 which is mounted on a guide piece 30 on the table, so as to permit longitudinal vibration of the hopper. The bottom is also provided with depending lugs 31 which embrace an eccentric carried by a shaft 32 The lowerend of the hopper bottom is provided 'with a longitudinal opening or slot I for the free passage into and from the hopferred to. The inner portion 33 of rethis is of less width than the length of per of the traveling blade devices above openin a mate the adjacent part of the hopper are sup- .ported at their ends, access can be hadvto I 45 with t e successive ins 46 of which enhavin their bearings in brackets beneath the ta le near its respective ends, the upper .horizontal run of the chain traveling upon the top of the table and the lower run upon a longitudinal guide rail 43 supported by posts 44 on the main frame. Each of the shafts 41 42 bears at one end a pin wheel gages a worm' wheel 4 on a power-driven main shaft 48 extending longitudinally of and havin its bearing in boxes in the main frame. e location of the conveyer relatively to the hopper is such that in the travel of the conveyer about the wheel 40 to a horizontal position, the. reduced upper extensions 35 of the blades 35 successively enter the slotted portion 33 of the hopper bottom and separate'and select an approxlmately measured quantity of the opposing mass of matches; thence as the conveyer progresses the blades stand upright and ad- Vance the thus gathered matches along the narrow slotted portion of the bottom. See Fig. 5.

The box' trays are delivered to the spaces between succeeding blades. 35 of the conveyer 34 at a point directly beneath the bottom where the slotted portion of the osition, or substanblades are in upright" tially so, above and in close relation to the inserted tray. (See Figs. 5 and 6.) The portion 33 of the slot inrear of the tray is sufiiciently wide to permit the matches to fall from the bottom of the hopper, and hence as each tray and the. superposed matches pass to and be ond the slotted portion 33' of the hopper t e matches, being unsupported, are progressivelydeposited 1n the underlying tray, their uniform descent being contributed to by the short rapid vibration of the hopper. The width of the space between the side extensions 24 of' the hopper is a trifle less than the length of a tray, and Q? j the width of each space between adjacent slightly and hence, while the matches in' rising in the form illusthe matches t us being supported 51 are driven at a blades 35 of the conveyer is a little greater than that of a tray. Hence the trays imosed on and carried by the'c'onveyer are pinched between the side extensions, and the latter thus efiect vibration of the trays in contact therewith and insure the settling of the matches within the trays.

The trays are fedthrough a horizontal guide structure 49 on the table to the spaces between the blades 35 of the conveyer, which guide structure includes spaced to and bottom members arranged to provi e a guide way at right angles to the upper horizontal I run of theconveyer. The trays are fed end to endthrough the guide way from a suitable feed trough 50 (Figs. 1 and 2) leading thereto from any convenient source of tray supply, and they are moved thence toward the conveyer by frictional feeding means, such for example, as spaced-rotating rollers 51 the peripheries of which cpntact with the respective sides of the opposing trays.

Thea rollers are fast on the lower ends of vertical shafts 52 having their bearings in a bracket 53 which straddles the uide structure 49, the sides of the latter eing open, as at 54, for the passage of the peripheries of the rollers to the opposing sides of the trays; (See Fig.4.) The up er portions of the shafts 52 bear grooved pulleys 55 about which passes an endless belt 56 from a grooved drive wheel 57 on the main shaft ,48. The belt 56 on' its way from the drive wheel to the pulleys 55 is guided by suitably-disposed idlers 58. The belt turns the pulleys 55 in the directions indicated by the small arrows thereon in Figs. 2 and 6, thus correspondingly and, perforce, advancing ortendin toadvance the proximate trays through the guide structure 49. As. the space between adjacent blades 35 reaches a position in line vertically with the axis of the chain wheel 40. the leading tray is' pushed into such space by the frictional action of the rotating feed rollers on the adjacent trays, the rearward blade 35 immediately moving laterally of the inserted .tray and acting as an end stop for the next'succeeding exterior tray untll another tray-receiving space of the conveyer is in alinement with the latter tray, and

so on.

It is to be noted that the friction rollers high surface speed compared with the speed of the conveyer 34, so as to project the leading tray fully upon the conveyer while the latter is moving a substantially inappreciable distance; such tray when positioned upon the conveyer impinging against the opposite side extension 24 of the match hopper.

turning the feed rollers 51 60 designates a rod extending longitudinally of the hopper so as to overhang and bear yieldingly upon the mass of matches during their descent and thus prevent their 61 on the table adjacent the lower end of the hopper. 62 designates a guard member arranged to lie within the lower portion of the hopper and overhang the adjacent upstanding blades of the tra conveyer. This member comprises an inc ined portion 62 which is conveniently secured at its upper end to the sides of the hopper, and a lower horizontal portion 63 which extends parallel with and near to the horizontal path of the blade extensions 35. The portion 63 is provided near its free end with flanged side pieces 63 which overhang and rest upon the upper edges of the side extensions of the hopper and thus permit limited yielding vertical movement of the guard member. This guard member thus provides for the lower portion of the hopper a yielding throat structure which efiectually ages an limits the level of the matches owing to and between the blade extensions above the trays while such extensions are entering into and passing through the lower portion of the hopper.

The filled match trays progress beyond the hopper, and are thereafter entered into their complementary shucks or covers by suitable mechanism, such, for example, as described in the parent case Serial No. 35,541 aforesaid.

My invention is not limited to the particular details of construction shown and described, as the mechanisms may be modified without departing from the spirit of the invention as defined in the appended claims. p

1 claim- 1. In a box-filling machine, the combination with a match-feeding hopper, of atrayconveyer mounted to travel under the delivery portion of the hopper and having spaced tray-holding members provided with upstanding portions adapted to enter the interior of the hopper. and transfer matches therefrom to the trays on the conveyer.

2. In a box-filling machine, the combination with an elongated match-feeding hopper having a bottom and sides, said bottom having" at its delivery end an opening of less width than the length of a match, of a tray-conveyer mounted to travel under the delivery end of the hopper and havlng trayholding members provided with upstanding projections which extend through the said opening and are adapted to engage the matches supported across the opening and transfer them from the hopper to the prommate trays on the conveyer.

3. In a box filling machine, the combmation. with a match feeding hopper, of a trayconveyer mounted to ,travel under the delivery portion of the hopper, said conveyer having spaced members which pro ect above the tops of the successive trays on the son veyer during their travel adjacent the hopper and provide measuring chambers for the matches before their delivery to the trays, and a yielding element at such delivery portion of the hopper overhanging the path of said members and affording a top or cover for the traveling chambers.

4. In a box-filling machine, the combination with an elongated match-feeding hopper, of a tray-conveyer mounted to travel under the delivery portion of the hopper in a path longitudinally ofthe hopper, said conveyer having spaced members which project above the tops of the successive trays on the conveyer during their travel adjacent the ho per, and a yielding throat piece at such de ivery end overhanging-the conveyer in proximity to the path of said member.

' 5. In a box-filling machine, the combination with an elongated match-feeding hopper, of a tray-conveyer mounted to travel under the delivery end of the hopper and having spaced tray-holding members, of a yielding throat piece at such delivery end,

- comprising a plate having a horizontal portion extending longitudinally of and overhanging the conveyer and an upwardly inclined portion at the forward end of such horizontal portion.

6. In a box-filling machine, the combination with an elongated match feeding hopper, of a tray-conveyer mounted to travel under the delivery portion of the hopper, said conveyer having spaced members which project above the tops of the successive trays on the conveyer during their travel adjacent the hopper, a yielding throat piece at the delivery portion ofthe hopper arranged to overhang the conveyer. in proximity to the path of said members, and a rod extending longitudinally of the hopper and overhanging the throat member, the end of said rod adjacent the throat member being pivotally supported.

7. In a box-filling machine, the combination of a conveyer having spaced tray-holding members extending transversely thereof, means for continuously moving said conveyer, frictional means for feeding trays toward the ends of" and into the spaces between successive members of the said conveyer, and means for supplying matches to the trays on the conveyer.

8. In a box-filling machine, the combination of a conveyer having spaced tray-holding members thereon, means for continuously moving said conveyer, a guide for box trays leading to the path of the conveyer, friction rollers mounted to turn in contact with the trays in the guide and feed the trays into the spaces between successive members of the conveyer, means for rotating said rollers, and means for supplying matches to the trays on the conveyer.

9. In a box-filling machine, the combination of a conveyer having tray-holding portions, means for impelling the conveyer,

' a hopper for supplying matches to the trays 5 on the conveyer, said hopper having side extensions which frictionally contact with r v the outer ends of the trays on the conveyer,

MICHAEL PARIDON. 

